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UTS ADDS DESIGN BRIGHT LIGHTS Founding partner of Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects, Brian Zulaikha and Design Director for City of Sydney, Bridget Smyth have joined the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building as adjunct professors in the School of Architecture.
Smyth and Zulaikha will be mentoring students in a range of subjects and projects. Smyth has worked at the City of Sydney since 2001. She is responsible for delivering Sustainable Sydney 2030. Zulaikha has been a leader in the design of some of the country’ s most notable cultural spaces.
GILLARD JOINS KING’ S COLLEGE
Former prime minister Julia Gillard has joined King’ s College London as a visiting professor, in a role that will see her working closely with the Policy Institute and the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies.
Gillard said she was honoured by the appointment and would“ look forward with great enthusiasm to substantive academic engagement with the students and faculty, and to contributing to meaningful discussion of issues of importance”.
Professor Ed Byrne, president and principal at King’ s College London, said Gillard would bring“ the most incredible wealth of experience, as well as important insights of the education systems both here and in Australia”.
TRAINING PROVIDER NAMES NATIONAL EXEC
Group Training Australia( GTA), has announced the appointment of Lauren Tiltman as its new national executive officer. Tiltman was previously the executive officer of Group Training Australia( South Australia) and has served on a number of advisory groups, including the South Australian Minister’ s Youth Council.
GTA chair Stuart Diepeveen said Tiltman’ s extensive background and knowledge of the group training sector made her ideal.
“[ Tiltman’ s ] rise through the ranks, starting as a trainee, running a state office and moving to this national executive position are a testament to her ability and standing across the network,” Diepeveen said.
CURTIN NAMES DESIGN SCHOOL LEADER
Curtin University has appointed professor Joseli Macedo as head of its School of Built
Environment( SoBE).
With an academic background in architecture and urbanism, Macedo joins Curtin with more than 20 years’ international higher education experience. Her areas of expertise include sustainable cities, urban design and international development planning.
Previously, Macedo was chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning; and director of the Center for International Design and Planning and a faculty affiliate in both the Center for Latin American Studies and the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Florida in the US.
MGSE NAMES SCIENCE PROF
Jan van Driel will join the Melbourne Graduate School of Education this September as its inaugural professor of science education. UniMelb stated that van Driel would work with other faculties, including science, engineering and medicine, to provide leadership in education reform and the development of STEM teachers.
“ There are excellent examples of how science teachers can implement innovative approaches that lift student engagement and performance,” van Driel said.
A former chemistry teacher, van Driel has a PhD in chemical education, and was professor of science education and director of the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching in the Netherlands.
MONASH ANTARCTIC RESEARCH CHIEF
Renowned biologist professor Steven
Chown, who heads
Monash University’ s School of Biological Sciences, has been elected president of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research( SCAR), an organisation that facilitates internationally significant research in and about Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
SCAR is an inter-disciplinary committee of the International Council for Science( ICSU), a non-government organisation with 122 members, representing 142 countries and international scientific unions.
“ Science in and about Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is of global significance,” Chown said.“ I am honoured to be able to serve the Antarctic science community, and the science community in general.”
STRICTLY SPEAKING | UN-BALLER
This curious word appears in a current railway station advertisement for the American TV comedy series Ballers, which is streamed by a well-known cable-TV provider in Australia. The series focuses on a group of football players, their associates( managers, friends and families) and their extravagant and‘ cool’ lifestyles. The title plays on the use of baller in African-American slang, meaning someone with monetary means way above average – originally a professional basketball player living high on a multimillion-dollar income with drugs, trophy women and prestige cars at his command. The station advertisement pictures the chagrin of the baller in front of his smashed up sports car, as he’ s being forced to catch the train, which is pitched as a“ decidedly un-baller way to travel”. As the flip side of baller, un-baller seems to be a byword for anything that represents micro-management of money, puny savings, or telling the shop assistant to“ keep the 63 cents change” – according to a sardonic blog on the“ most un-baller things”. But for the thousands who catch the un-baller train every day, the ad provides some consolation that they can“ stream anytime, anywhere”, and ease their financial pain on the way home with the latest episode of Ballers.
Written by emeritus professor Pam Peters, researcher with Macquarie University’ s Centre for Language Sciences.
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